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THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (2) Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle 2 When the commissionaire had gone Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. It s a bonny thing said he. Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil s pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders a vitriol-throwing a suicide and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallized charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison I ll lock it up in my strong box now and drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it. Do you think that this man Horner is innocent I cannot tell. Well then do you imagine that this other one Henry Baker had anything to do with the matter It is I think much more likely that Henry Baker is an absolutely innocent man who had no idea that the bird which he was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made of solid gold. That however I shall determine by a very simple test if we have an answer to our advertisement. And you can do nothing until then Nothing. In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned for I should like to see the solution of so tangled a business. Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock I believe. By the way in view of recent occurrences perhaps I ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop. I had been delayed at a case and it was a little after half-past six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I .